Artist Statement

In my artistic practice I explore intrinsic issues of human nature such as memory, psycho-emotional processes and mental health. My work is informed by personal and collective experiences contrasted with a constant theoretical and scientific research, motivated by my beginnings in the psychology field. Using mainly clay as a medium, I create sculptural pieces ranging from rigorous geometric shapes to fluid and abstract ones that recall (resemble) organs or internal structures of the human body. Through this noble and versatile medium, I can materialize what my three-dimensional mind imagines. As part of my creative process, I usually work sketches or scale models that allow me to visualize and solve details before starting the hand-built pieces.

I have always been captivated by mathematics and science, which adds to my avid interest in the origin of things and how they are constituted. This continuous restlessness and questioning creates polarities within my work, such as the contrast between the natural and the artificial, as well as the fluid organic forms and obsessive sharpness with intricate patterns.  The practice of ceramics as a medium is a tool of therapy and healing.  This is why I see my work as an opportunity to understand the interesting and complex relationship that we human beings have with ourselves, with others and with what surrounds us.